In 1968, Ruth Kaufman, a 45 year old elementary school teacher, and her two teenaged children, David and Nita, fled the comforts of their middle class American lifestyle to embark on what would become a precarious fourteen-month journey to some of the most impoverished and volatile parts of the world. At a time when the United States and Russia, bristling with nuclear weapons, had forced the global community into the deep-freeze of the Cold war, and as human beings were relentlessly killing each other in Vietnam, Ruth was determined to find the best in humanity. With her humble spirit and...